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I've got an interesting comparison here: I have a 2nd hand x220 thinkpad, 10 years old. This machine serves me very well today on linux and KDE. I did give i
by hyperman1 8y ago
I've got an interesting comparison here: I have a 2nd hand x220 thinkpad, 10 years old. This machine serves me very well today on linux and KDE. I did give it an SSD and 16g ram. Otoh, most of the time it is forced on the lowest CPU speed to get some extra battery.
My previous employer gave us recent laptops. But it has a virus scannerbogging it down to unusable slowness. It has tons and tons of agents for licensing, network security, proxies,etc... It has draconian group policies eating away speed. It has SCCM scanning the whole hard drive on a regular base, which of course awakens tje virus scanner just for some bonus slowdown. I dreaded developing on that beast, and coworkers tended to copy code to their personal laptop, just to get some work done.
Now on paper, that work machine was a lot better than my thinkpad. In reality however...
- jandrese 8y agoHowever your ancient Thinkpad is now a hole in your network security... Most virus scanners are security theater IMHO, so you're probably not much different than those other laptops. At the very least full disk scans are pretty unnecessary after the first if you're running in the default active protection mode. Anything the active protection misses your full disk scan is unlikely to find.
- hyperman1 8y agowhy would it be? It runs a fully patched Debian with ports closed, etc... There is no difference software wise with a laptop from today.